size of XQuery developer community

[David Sewell]

This reminds me of the old joke about how to count sheep in a field:
"count the number of legs, then divide by 4".

So for a first-order approximation, let's compare the ratio of emails
about XQuery to emails about Perl using the search at markmail.org:

XQuery =   45230
Perl   = 1342154

So... there is about 1 XQuery programmer for every 33 Perl programmers.
Count the number of Perl programmers, and there is the answer!

(Seriously, one could do this for several languages to get a very rough
idea of the popularity of different ones.)

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Daniela Florescu wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> almost every time when I give a talk about XQuery I get confronted
> with the same  question, to which I do not know the answer.
>
> The question from the audience always is: " How many XQuery developers are
> there? "
> -- with the underlying assumption that, indeed, there are not that many.
>
> Please help me with this. I honestly don't know the answer.
>
> How do you appreciate the size of the XQuery developers community ?
> (thousands,
> tens of thousands, millions !!??)
>
> Thanks in advance, best regards
> Dana
>
>
>
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